The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-03
HASTE AND DAY.
Two We1I.kmOWm Honolulu Char
acterS and Their DOiugs at the
Coast,

Our readers will remember Hugh
HASTE, whose name has been SO fire.
Quently mentioned in connection with
the Post Office robbery. Also Harry
Day, fash young man who chummed
a great deal with HASTE. The following
from the San Francisco Chronicle"
concerns them:
Burglars, as a rule, are proverbial for
their total disregard of the laws of eti-
quette, but it is probable that the enter
prising young man who rifed the room
of married couple in J. D. Fraser's
lodging house at 126 Sixth street, at 2
o'clock yesterday morning, was the
noblest Roman of them all in point Of
"gall."
In order that the situation may be
properly grasped it will be necessary to
state that fashionable young man
named Harry Day, and companion,
Hugh HASTE, went to Fraser's house to
lodge some four or five months ago
Fraser had known the pair before in
Honolulu, and greeted them cordially.
They told him that they had been en-
| gagged in real estate business in San
Diego and seemed to be we'll fixed in
the matter of cash and jewelry. They
| stayed at Fraser's house a few weeks
| and left again, ostensibly to go to San
| Jose to take part in the boom. Last
week they turned up again, and said
that they had just returned from San
| Diego, their old stamping ground They
only remained in Fraser's house one
night and left next morning, having oc-
cupied room on the first floor.
Yesterday morning at the time before
mentioned, Mrs. Fraser, whose room is
on the same floor as room 3, heard some
one stirring on the landing, and looked
out through small window, and saw
young man moving about, minus coat,
boots or hat. She saw him take the |
articles referred to from under a cane
bottom armchair and shift them further
along the passage toward room 8, being |
very stealthy in all his actions. She |
aroused her husband, and in the mean
time the young night-prowIer had APP
parently passed into room 3, which was
occupied by married couple.
By the time Fraser had got out of his
room, which is at the head of the stairs,
he heard voices in room 3, and i'm
mediately afterward the burglar, for such
in reality he was, backed out of tb%;I
room and softly and sileBtLtFrraacn, ' 'tt9
break for the lie ste Cosmonoli+.sly made
plcV M -z,a.lrs, without waiting to
"a u his coat or hat. Fraser grabbed
him and the young man struggled to
free himself without avail. Seeing that
he was bowled out, he resorted to
strategy.
o. it, Fraser" he whined, "don't
you know me? It's Harry" ;
Fraser looked closely at his man and
found it was none other than his former
dashing young lodger.
"And what are you prowling around
here for?" asked Fraser.
''Why," quickly responded the ready
witted rascal, ''that internal idiot
Hughie (his partner) has played trick
on me. He told me when I met him
tonight that he had engaged our old
room, No. 8, and asked me to come and
stay with him tonight. Here's a nice
pickle Pm in, to be sure. Bursting in
on a married couple and making a fool
of myself"
The story looked so plausible on the
face of it that Fraser released his hold of
Day. In the meantime the male occu-
pant of room had come to his door,
and hearing Days explanation, was
quite satisfied that mistake had been
made, such as might occur at any time.
He accordingly went back to bed, while
Day secured his hat, coat and boots and
went forth into the night cursing and
vowing vengeance on his friend Hughie
for playing a trick upon him.
When, however, the occupants of No.
8 arose in the morning, the husband was
surprised to see his pants lying on the
floor Of the room. His curiosity being |
aroused he took them up, and very |
short search suf6ced to show him that |
the contents OF the pockets, about $40, |
had been distracted. About this time
his wife remarked that she could not |
find her cuffs. A few minutes hunting
developed the fact that the missing
articles were under the bed and minus
their gold sleeve buttons.
Mr.. Fraser was at once appraised of
the discovery and the truth at once
flashed across his mind.
Glow was it heard voices in your
room ?' he asked of the male lodger.
"Well," was the reply, ''my wife
awoke and whispered to me that there
was man in the room. raised my
head and saw him fumbling about, and